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Page 4 The Battalion Tuesday, July 27,1993 Flooding to blame for lost water service the associated press Missouri water treatment plant down Thousands queued up for clean water for a second day Monday in St. Joseph, Mo., as they waited for crews to repair damage caused when the Missouri River invaded the city water treatment plant. Seven water pump motors were airlifted out of the plant Monday and taken to Kansas City for repairs, water company offi cials said. The muddy Missouri, which overflowed the plant's levee Sat urday night, had risen to 32.5 feet Monday, 15.5 feet above flood stage. Until the plant is working about 85,000 people in the St. Joseph area were depending on bottled water, water tank trucks, military water purification units and portable toilets. Missouri officials were able to turn for advice to a voice of expe rience in neighboring Iowa, where 250,000 people in and around Des Moines lost water service to flood damage. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said he discussed the possibility of shuf fling bottled water to Missouri and offered the use of a portable water purification plant flown into Iowa by the National Guard. "We've accumulated quite a lot of bottled water," Branstad said. Scores of giant tanker trucks hold ing fresh water were parked at one central gathering spot in Des Moines. Water is running again in Des Moines for showers and flushing toilets, but residents still need bot tled water for drinking. The pump airlift went on with out the use of the St. Joseph air port, where water up to 8 feet flowed over runways and sur rounded an Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane. "The airport may be under wa ter, but I am still in charge of avia tion," airport manager Brian Weil- er said good-naturedly. Upstream in Nebraska, thun derstorms during the night poured down 4 more inches of rain on the saturated Missouri River watershed, causing local flooding and threatening to pro long the inundation. "Everything is saturated and if there is any appreciable rain in that area, there will be problems," said Nebraska Civil Defense spokesman Joe Hinton. National Guard troops used two five-ton trucks to carry peo ple around the town of Beatrice in southeastern Nebraska on Mon day after the Big Blue River flood ed two highways. The Missouri rose more than 3 feet in 24 hours at Kansas City, Mo., heading for St. Louis and the confluence with the Missis sippi, which was expected to crest again Aug. 3 at St. Louis at a record 48 feet. Report to NASA managers shows job perception error THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Most space shuttle mishaps are the result of human error, yet there is a growing sense among workers that they will be punished or even lose their jobs if they report mis takes, NASA said Monday. This erroneous perception seems to be the result of budget-in duced work force reductions and "sometimes exaggerated reporting of incidents by the media," NASA said in a 45-page study of shuttle processing. "We reviewed all the discipline records and found no evidence that reporting mistakes leads to disciplinary action," said Richard Perry, chairman of the review team and director of NASA's space flight safety and mission assurance. "Rather, we find that inten tional violation of procedures ... did receive appropriate discipli nary action. "But the perception is there on the part of the people, and we've conveyed that to management." luesday. GOOD People X DEfL Haw i The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: Room 015 (basement) Reed McDonald Building 1 ’AGGIE' Private Party Want Ads Business Hours $10 for 20 words running 5 days. If your merchan- dlse Is priced $ 1000 or less (price must appear In mau ad). 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The administration's plan would force states to pick up a bigger share of the cost of finding welfare recipients who work off the books, hide assets, collect multiple checks or sell food stamps on the black market. But states, starved for cash and strapped by unparalleled growth in their welfare rolls, say they do not have the money to cover the loss in federal dollars and may have to shrink their anti-fraud programs. "You will see the ripoff artists and the sleazy subculture that's trying to rip off this program quickly move to exploit the fact that the states are going to be in tough shape fight ing fraud," predicts Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who has spent five years investigating food stamp fraud. Adds Donna FitzGibbon, president of the Wisconsin Council on Welfare Fraud: "It's like leaving the vault at the bank open and hoping nobody walks by and takes the mon ey. Ninety percent won't, but what about the other 10 percent?" Even the largest government estimates of fraud are not that high. Congressional officials now peg food stamp fraud at $1 billion a year while the HHS Inspector General found that as early as 1987 fraud in Aid to Families with De pendent Children (AFDC) was a "billion-dol lar problem." The government will spend $22.4 billion on food stamp benefits and $23 billion on AFDC benefits this year. But Robert Greenstein, a former Agricul ture Department official who now heads the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, an advocate for the poor, argues that the gov eminent has no good data on the extent of welfare fraud. Martha Armstrong, president of the Unit ed Council on Welfare Fraud, an organiza tion of fraud investigators, estimates that fraud occurs in 5 percent to 10 percent of households on welfare. The federal government now gives the states $3 for every $1 they spend controlling fraud in food stamps and AFDC. Clinton wants to split those costs 50-50. EDITOR’S Soc reli < I read M Dickers column Committee policy shuns gays in military service THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Clinton's policy on homosexuals in the military centers on the premise that orientation is not a bar to service. A Senate panel's version says loud and clear who shouldn't sign up. Sen. Sam Nunn, said the Armed Services Committee policy sends a message to both comman ders and the courts that military service is unique and homosexu ality is anathema. "The presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high stan dards or morale, good order and discipline," the panel says in the last of its 15 congressional findings embodied in the policy. To federal courts weighing mil itary regulations, the committee policy stresses that the armed forces operate with their own rules, some of which would not be found in civilian life. And to the commanders, the policy says individuals whose presence would create an unac ceptable risk must be excluded. "It is clear on the people who would not be able to serve in the military," Nunn said Friday in an nouncing it. Absent from the committee policy is the cornerstone of Clin ton's plan — the idea that homo sexual orientation is not a bar to service unless manifested by con duct. The committee makes no mention of orientation. The major change embodied in Clinton's policy, an end to ques tioning recruits and service mem bers about their sexual orienta tion, would be continued in the committee's plan. There is a caveat: A future president or defense secretary could reinstate the question. There is no mention in the committee policy of Clinton's re quirement that commanders and agencies not begin investigations solely to determine an individ ual's sexual orientation. And also absent from the com mittee plan is one of the provi sions gay rights groups had sought and won in Clinton's plan — a promise of evenhanded en forcement of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for homosexuals and heterosexuals. The code views sodomy as a criminal act. Nunn portrayed the committee policy as consistent with Clinton's. But the Senate legisla tion is clearly hostile to homosex uality in the military. Nunn, D-Ga., won the support of all 10 committee Republicans for the policy and the backing of Sen, Richard Shelby, the Alabama De mocrat who has opposed Clinton on nearly every' policy this year. lage as a ranomic jetween b nans. I d< differ w Marriag which a m Jiecomrm that they ii to toward aonspecifi pies invite toproclain main gift: tunic attit iribes is h Tuberculosis Continued from Page 1 of people coming in from Mexico and Central America," McMurray said. Rep. Ron Coleman, D-El Paso, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, have proposed compan ion bills that would ask President Bill Clinton to seek an agreement with Mexico for a bi-national commission on border health. The group would bring Mexi can and American officials from various agencies together to carry out clinical work on both sides of the border. A&M sociology professor Dr. Alex Macintosh said, "If these commissions get cooperation from the local population, it should work." "Many people on the border are illegal aliens and are difficult to get in contact with," he said. "They are naturally suspicious of people they don't know." The funding of these three commissions is provided by the Center for Disease Control. TB is highly contagious and is .spread primarily through the pul monary route. The disease can be transmitted by coughing, sneez ing, and talking. The disease can also be trans mitted to other rooms through air conditioning vents, McMurray said. * Tuberculosis primarily affects the lungs, and symptoms in clude: coughing, weight loss, and night sweats. Treatments are usually given in six month regimens and require taking a pill daily or two times a week for six to nine months. In Texas, the' number of cases reported has risen 43 percent over the past five years. Calling Continued from Page 1 Hearne's population is 5,100 and is located 20 miles from Bryan. The exchange must file a peti tion with PUC signed by 5 percent of the people owning a phone, or 100 total subscribers within an ex change, whichever is less. The local telephone company will then provide ballots to all subscribers within the petitioning exchange, and 70 percent of those responding must support the ex pansion. The petitioning exchange must share a "community of interest" with the exchange requested, ac cording to the bill. Boyle said Hearne residents working in Bryan are an ideal ex ample of an interested party, but they should consider where they want to call and what particular exchanges. Boyle said no one from the Hearne area has become involved yet, but Texas Communities for Expanded Local Calling Areas would be interested in Hearne's participation. Castro urges Cubans to overcome economic crisis THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA, Cuba — President Fidel Castro marked the 40th an niversary of Cuba's revolution on Monday by urging Cubans to "redouble efforts" to overcome their economic crisis and outlining ways the government will help. His nationally televised speech was the centerpiece of celebra tions that were trimmed to the bare bones for the second consecu tive year in the beleaguered Communist nation. In his speech, Castro detailed Cuba's economic woes, saying sugar earnings would fall $450 million below what had been ex pected. Fuel shortages have severely cut back capacity to refine sugar, the country's its most important export. The loss of trade and aid from the former Soviet Union and East ern Europe, combined with the 30-year-old U.S. trade embargo, have cut Cuba's economy roughly in half and slashed its imports. Castro revealed that estimated imports this year would be about $1.7 billion, down from $2.2 billion last year and from about $13 bil lion in 1989. He noted the country faces "an extremely grave scarci ty of convertible currency." He said measures to solve the problem include encouraging vis its by Cubans living abroad, allowing Cubans greater freedom to travel overseas, making Cuba more open to foreign investment, and encouraging tourism. He also said possession of foreign cur rency would be decriminalized. "There are not miracle formulas" to save the economy, he said. Cuban officials recently announced that possessing foreign cur rency would be decriminalized. And they are promoting joint ven tures with foreign capitalists in export industries and oil explo ration and encouraging tourism, which they say brought in $530 million last year. Visits by Cubans living abroad have been allowed only rarely af ter much paper work, and Cubans have not been encouraged to travel overseas. Castro and other officials say they are being forced into mea sures that seem to clash with their socialist ideals to save the revo lution and defend their system. Stripped of most of its oil, much of its food and most of its spare parts and industrial supplies, Cuba has been forced to slash work ing hours at many offices and factories and idle others. Nearly everything is rationed and the black market is booming. marriage i Ipnd no disturbing of mania g missing. The mis ispect inv thefundai definition iage. Die describes i nages, no ( Mania lliecultur ilie world Hindu, Je definitely ieremonif tings, ofte spend fou the whole Here in tT Society Kognitic izes the ir set. 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Texas Tech won a national championship in women's basketball. Texas' swimming program is one of the best in the nation. The SWC is the best baseball conference in the na tion. A&M continues to build a football pro gram to compete with the nation's power houses. The rivalries of A&M vs. UT, A&M vs. LSU and UT vs. Oklahoma are some of the greatest in football. With all of this raw material and the long tradition of the Southwest Conference itself, the SWC only needs someone who could fit all the pieces together and has the ability to promote that material on a national level. It seems that the conference has found the per fect man for the job in Steve Hatchell.